“But when reflexion begins to play upon these objects... like some trick of magic each object is loosed into a group of impressions - colour, odour, texture... And if we continue to dwell in thought on this world... the whole scope of observation is dwarfed into the narrow chamber of the individual mind.” IfsWorldMindPlayWholeIndividualMagicGroupsObjectsThis WorldTricksImpressionObservationColourScopeChamberTextureImpressionism Author:Walter Pater
“Magicians and scientists are, on the face of it, poles apart. Certainly, a group of people who often dress strangely, live in a world of their own, speak a specialized language and frequently make statements that appear to be in flagrant breach of common sense have nothing in common with a group of people who often dress strangely, speak a specialized language, live in ... er.” PeopleWorldFacesSpeakLanguageCommonMagicGroupsScientistDressesStatementsCommon SenseMagicianBreach Author:Terry Pratchett
“Scuttle no small plans. They have no magic to stir single issue individuals into a group of people against everything.” PeopleIndividualIssuesPlansMagicGroups Author:Daniel Burnham
“The 'civil rights' revolutionary groups are a case in point. Their goal is not equality but power. The background of Negro culture is African and magic, and the purposes of magic are control and power. . . Voodoo or magic was the religion and life of American Negroes. Voodoo songs underlie jazz, and old voodoo, with its power goal, has been merely replaced with revolutionary voodoo, a modernized power drive.” Has BeensPurposeReligionSongCultureGoalCasesRightsMagicGroupsJazzBackgroundsCivil RightsRevolutionaryReplacedVoodoo Author:R.J. Rushdoony
“A really sublime moment is that when the last ray of light breaks in upon the soul, and marshals into a single group all the scattered disconnected truths there. There is such a vast difference between the moment which follows, and the moment which precedes this one, between what we were before, and what we are after, that the word grace has been invented to convey the idea of this magic stroke, of this light from on high.” Has BeensIdeasSoulMomentsLightLastsDifferencesBreakGraceMagicGroupsRaysSublimeStrokesDisconnectedRays Of Light Author:Jean-Baptiste Henri Lacordaire
“I've been on enough sports teams in my life to have experienced the magic of what can happen when a group of people care for and love each other.” PeopleEnoughHappensCareSportsMagicGroupsTeamAnd LoveLove Each OtherSports Team Author:Tim Ryan
“The biggest thing I've noticed with some of my favorite directors is their gift of sticking a bunch of strangers in a room together and making them comfortable and making them into a cohesive group. There's magic involved, because you don't know why anybody would pick this group of people.” PeopleKnowsTogetherRoomsMagicGroupsInvolvedDirectorsComfortablePicksMy FavoriteStrangerBunch Author:Alison Pill
“Steve Jobs always believed that you didn't want to do focus groups or research and ask people what they wanted. You wanted to create products that they didn't know they wanted yet and they would fall in love with. And I think that was part of the magic of his design philosophy.” PeopleThinkingKnowsWantPhilosophyWantedJobsFallAsksFocusMagicGroupsDesignProductsResearchFalling In LoveAlways BelieveFocus Groups Author:Steve Case
“This is what magic is. It's being able to speak in a voice which makes things happen, being able to speak in a voice which causes facts to be beheld by groups of people in a way that has been purged from profane language, for us relegated to poetry and that sort of thing.” PeopleWayHas BeensFactsHappensAbleSpeakLanguageCausesVoiceMagicGroupsThings HappenProfaneMake Things Happen Author:Terence McKenna